Morning journal and courier., 1887-06-13


 club will clear s75,OO this year. This will cheer the Chicago men who sold ''the only Kelly"
 It is every day becoming clearer that the managers of the noble order of Knights of Labor have, to use the expressive language of the wild West, ''bitten off more than they can chew"
 A canvass in Waco, Texas, shows that there are thirty-seven lawyers for prohibi- ton and twenty-five against, while of the doctors seventeen are for prohibition, seven against, and four on the fence. The objections to a committee of confer ence between representatives of the city, the Derby railroad company and the Consoli dated railroad company have no force. Such committee could get at the merits of the cash much more correctly and expeditiously than they can be got at in any other way. As matters going now thers does not seem to be prospect of any result, except, perhaps, some funerals of men talked to death.
 Among the graduates at West Point this year is one colored youth, Cadet Ulysses G. McAlexander. He has had no adventures such as have befallen several other colored cadets in former years, perhaps partly from the softening of the colored prejudice, but more from his own behavior, as he has main. tained good rank in his studies and by gen. tlemanly manners has won the respect of the corps and the friendship of many of his classmates.
 
 A liquor dealer of Augusta, Maine, has imported large invoice of Irish whisky and Jamaica rum from Liverpool where he has arrangements for shipping unlimited quanti- ties of all kinds of distilled spirits. The United States law protects all persons inn porting liquors from foreign countries from goods in the original unbroken packages and therefore this liquor dealer cannot be trou- bled by the so-oalled prohibitory law of Maine.
 The London Medical Record says that there are more deaths from apoplexy in Bordeaux than in any other city in the world, and it attributes that fact to the bibulous habits of | the Bordelais. It seems that Bordeaux is given to wine-bibbing to an extent which produces an abnormal amount of disease of various kinds. It might have been supposed that Bordeaux drank pure wine, but such is not the fact. There is quite as much adul- iteration of wines intended for home con- sumption as of those sent abroad.
 At the last taking of the Prussian census there was one man Of 120 years, another of 119, woman of 117, another of 115. two women of 112, two men and one woman of Ill, five women of 110, one man and four women of 109, three and two women of 10S, two men and ten women of 107, thirteen men and seven women of 106, and quite number of old gentlemen and ladies who had attained their 105th year. The total number of persons who gave their age at over 100 was 160. Out of LOTS male persons between their 90th and 95th year in all the Prussian provinces, one in five is Silesian, and out of the 306 men between 95 and 100 years old, dfty-one are natives of Silesia. There are ninety-nine women in Si1esia be- tween 95 and 100 yesrs old, and thirty Sila- l sian women who have exceeded their tooth year.
 Connecticut is not the only State which has blue laws. In 1723 Maryland passed a law against Sabbath breakers, providing that